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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 30 May, 1957 DVD Release : 22 April, 2003 |
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral description Novelist Leon Uris wrote the script for this Western directed by John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) and based on the life and times of Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and his sickly companion, Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas). The action inevitably leads to the legendary battle between the two heroes and the villainous Clanton gang, but the film is also very much about the conflicts each man faces with women, with one another, and with their own destinies. Lancaster is terrific as the downbeat Earp, and Douglas has one of his best roles as the consumptive Holliday. The thoughtfulness of the tale is matched by Sturges's captivating way with the dramatic duel. All in all, the film appeals both as a solid action piece and as a fascinating, two-character study. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | VERY subtle in comparison to "Tombstone" or "Wyatt Earp," but still solid |
| If you've seen and enjoyed "Tombstone" or "Wyatt Earp" before watching "Gunfight At The OK Corral," I'm not sure what you'll think of it. "Tombstone" was like a raw nerve stretched out over a couple of hours and featured career-best performances from Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer and Powers Boothe.
In "Gunfight," Burt Lancaster's Wyatt Earp is less complex and not as tightly defined. Kirk Douglas approaches Holiday from the standpoint of a man who knows he's dying, and...despite his outward apathy toward most things other than a hand of poker...probably cares more about justice than Earp himself. The gunfight itself...especially in comparison to the Armageddon of "Tombstone"...is a standard 1950s Western movie gunfight. The end...no spoilers here...is nowhere near as satisfying and there's not the same sense of closure as you saw in "Tombstone." A "good"...not "great" Western for your Saturday afternoon home matinee. If you like this one you should also check out "My Darling Clementine"...yet another OK Corral film...with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and Walter Brennan as "Old Man Clanton." It's worth watching just to good-guy Brennan play against type. |
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